Bioresources Engineering | Agricultural Systems Engineering
Agricultural Systems Engineering focuses on the continuing development of engineering technologies and processes that sustain and advance agriculture while simultaneously protecting the environment. Agricultural Systems Engineering includes both production agriculture and agriculture in the transition between urban and rural zones. Select examples include: emergency agricultural remediation; agricultural air quality; impacts of urban encroachment on agriculture; and managed urban, agricultural, and engineered ecosystems.
- Emergency agricultural remediation deals with environmentally compatible, timely and humane responses to catastrophic disease outbreaks, weather events, and similar.
- Agricultural air quality involves the monitoring and abatement of environmental air quality both within structures and in the surroundings.
- Urban encroachment directly places an increasing population density within traditional agricultural production regions.
- Agricultural Systems Engineering directly impacts the state and regional agriculture ability to respond to increasing environmental pressure.
Emergency Agricultural Remediation includes responses to animal disease outbreaks and weather events.
Dr. Eric Benson, is an associate professor in both the Department of Bioresources Engineering and Department of Animal and Food Sciences, uses agricultural systems engineering to conduct applied poultry research. A new project in agricultural lighting helps to balance energy management and new technology.
